When I was looking for a historical fiction written by an indigenous author I knew right where to go because back in 2021 the Indigenous Reading Circle was featured in a Reading Women Podcast Reading Challenge, and I’ve been following them on Instagram ever since. This year they are highlighting native women in fiction and Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling, a complicated coming of age set on the Flathead Reservation in the 1940s, was their February selection. The story follows Louise White Elk as she approaches adulthood. […]
“The closer you are to life, the closer you are to death, her grandmother had told her.”
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling